Love
To Lucasta.
Love
LIke to the Sent…nel Stars, I watch all Night;
For still the grand round of your Light,
And glorious Breast
Awakes in me an East,
Nor will my rolling Eyes ere know a West.
Now on my Down I'm toss'd as on a Wave,
And my repose is made my Grave;
Fluttering I lye,
Do beat my Self and dye,
But for a Resurrection from your eye.
Ah my fair Murdresse! dost thou cruelly heal,
With Various pains to make me well?
Then let me be
Thy cut Anatomie,
And in each mangled part my heart you'l see,
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MLA
Lovelace, Richard. “To Lucasta.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lovelace/9/.
Chicago
Lovelace, Richard. “To Lucasta.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lovelace/9/.
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